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Memory and the Gothic Aesthetic in Film
About this book
This open access book defines the cinematic Gothic as an aesthetics of memory and exile. Guided by three intersecting concepts â memory, travelling, and touch â it suggests that the cross-border movements of exiles, Ă©migrĂ©s, and professional travellers had a crucial impact on the emergence, development, and dissemination of the Gothic. This approach expands the canon to overlooked films, filmmakers, and national traditions. Drawing on film, memory, and gothic studies, the book urges the reader to think across other disciplines, including phenomenology, neurology, cognitive neuroscience, anddisability studies. From hands to pianos, accordions, gloves, amnesia, and wounded bodies, the volume proposes a reappraisal of the Gothic by redrawing its scope, retracing its origins, and refocusing attention on surfaces as sites of socio-political meaning.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- 1. Introduction: The Gothic Aesthetic
- 2. Memory as Personal History: ĂmigrĂ©s, Exiles, and Professional Travellers
- 3. Memory-Objects and Journeys of Re-collection
- 4. Memory as Touch: The Hand, Amputation, and Sensory Contagion
- 5. Tactile Travelling, Manual Space, and the Duality of Gothic Hands
- 6. Pathological Journeys, Gloves, and âAffect-Logicâ
- 7. Amnesia and Oblivion
- 8. The Gothic Piano: Elegy to an Absence
- 9. Conclusion: Routes of Re-membering
- Back Matter